Archive for the ‘Conservation’ Category

SciTech Festival features hands-on activities

Center for Native and Urban Wildlife demonstration of Sonoran Desert biodiversity at Scottsdale Community College. Photo courtesy of CNUW.

Scottsdale Community College and the Arizona SciTech Festival present the first annual “Full STEAM Ahead” festival Saturday, Feb. 23 on the SCC campus. The event features creative learning and hands-on challenges involving science and technology aimed at students of all ages. “Full STEAM Ahead” is free and open to the public. It’s one of 200 science and technology [...]

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Shady and electrified

The east parking lot at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix has new shade structures which will be perfect when the heat wave rolls in any day now. Not only are the shade structures the same green-yellow of the museum, but they have photovoltaic cells on top to generate electricity. The 24 solar wings, shading 48 [...]

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A haus by the lake

Sitting on the southern shore of Tempe Town Lake just east of the Tempe Center for the Arts is a tiny structure with no signs or labels. It’s called Das Haus, German for, the house, but it isn’t an actual haus, or house, it’s parts of a house to demonstrate how to save energy with [...]

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Going with less flow

Yair Costanon Gallegos times the faucet while Josue Carrasco holds the basin.

Where does our water come from and how much do we use? Worldwide Project WET teaches children how to answer both of those questions. According to The Nature Conservancy, 77 percent of Americans don’t know where their water comes from. Arizona Project WET came to Peter Bartenen’s seventh-grade classroom at Orangedale Junior High in the [...]

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